by Earle J. Fisher | Jan 19, 2026 | Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis, MLK Day, Op-Ed, Policing, Racial Justice, Surveillance, Tennessee
Every year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, elected officials quote King while standing safely at a distance from the risks he embraced. His name is invoked, his image sanitized, and his politics stripped of urgency. The U.S. celebrates a softened King who spoke about love but not power, unity but not confrontation, peace but not disruption. What we rarely confront is this truth: Martin Luther King…
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by Amelia Schafer | Dec 30, 2025 | Activism, Black Panther Party, FBI, Genocide, Ku Klux Klan, MLK Day, News, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Perry Ray Robinson, Wounded Knee
After a half-century of uncertainty, all Cheryl Buswell-Robinson wants is the body of her husband, Perry Ray Robinson, to be returned. In March 1973, Robinson called home to Alabama from a conference in Taos, New Mexico, to tell his wife he planned to join the American Indian Movement’s takeover of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation where tribal members were protesting then-tribal…
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